Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Feature Teacher Tuesday is Back!

Kendwy is a first grade teacher in the state of Massachusetts as well as a wife, mother of two beautiful girls and pastor.

Kendwy has been teaching first grade for four years. She started working in an alternative school right out of high school in order to pay for college. She was a biology major with a pre-med concentration, but 3 months into the school year she realized that what she desperately wanted to do was teach. So began her journey to obtain her teaching degree even if it meant changing her biology major after 2 ½ years. Her motto became “I didn’t choose teaching; teaching chose me”.

After many years in education and a burning passion for teaching, this past summer she finally decided to take the plunge and she opened up her TPT store and started her blog at BuggyForFirst. Her blog is currently undergoing a facelift and will soon look “legit” :)

Kendwy works with a big population of ELLs. She believes that every student can be successful with the proper supports put in place. Language should never be a barrier for learning. As a second language learner herself, she is very aware of the challenges that many of her students face and makes it a priority to bring engaging and high quality instruction to all her students. She uses the 7 step vocabulary process to teach vocabulary. You can grab the posters from her store. They’re a FREEBIE :)